Here is some behind the scenes footage of the recording of the last episode of “Conan: The Adventurer”, recorded on July 29th 1993.

The recording starts with some horsing around and setup, followed by the live recording of some lines from the episode.

Shown are stars Garry Chalk, Kathleen Barr, Richard Newman, Doug Parker, Scott McNeil, Janyse Jaud, Mike Donovan and Stevie Vallance. This was posted to voice actress Stevie Vallance’s YouTube channel on Monday. Powet readers may know Stevie Vallance best as the voice of Mouse from Reboot. The cast of Conan went on to do many great shows like The Bots Master, Reboot and Beast Wars.

As it’s 1993 we can see things like Scott McNeil playing a classic grey Gameboy!

The live action Akira film has officially been green lit by Warner Bros. and the current front runner to play Kaneda is Tron Legacy’s Garrett Hedlund. Plans are to start as early as February or March of next year.

So is Flynn Jr. a better Kaneda than Leo? Do you prefer this crappy photoshop to the one I did back when Powet.tv reported details on the movie’s director and writer?

A word to fans! Please don’t call this a remake, like fools at slashfilm and many others have done. Akira was a Manga before it was an Anime movie, so this simply an adaptation of that Manga in a different medium. We can still speculate about the validity of white people fucking it up, but it’s no more a remake than Dragonball Evolution was a remake of that shitty Anime Dragonball Z movie. Which one? Take your pick…

Source: Variety

In this past weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live a skit featured host Anna Faris as a character that looks quite familiar to Sailor Moon fans. The clip has Faris playing a Japanese anime fan and despite the similarities to Sailor Moon she mentions she is dressed as her own fan made character “Cherry Cherry Rock and Roll”.

Americans can watch the clip on Hulu:

The rest of the world can keep reading for the YouTube version which might not be around for long…

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A new Star Trek series featuring a younger more vibrant cast is in the works. How young? How vibrant? Well Justin Bieber has not officially accepted the role but I imagine based on no evidence at all that he will certainly be the Captain.

This news is kind of old, and it didn’t come to my attention earlier because it’s most certainly meaningless. At a Star Trek convention in Las Vegas in August Trek Web did an interview with David Foster about a new series he’s working on. And when I say working on, I mean he would like to make a show, but has no money and has not pitched it to CBS yet. Still, some people are reporting this as being “in development” so I’m passing the info along.

Hey did you know there’s a Blade anime? Well there is, and Marvel has announced that the voice of Blade for the dub will be none other than Harold Perrineau, Michael from Lost. Will Harold be able to live up to the legacy left by Wesley Snipes, Sticky Fingaz and a bunch of people you’ve never heard of who voiced him in video games? With a great movie and TV show predating it, this anime has some tall shoes to fill.

The Blade anime has already started airing in Japan and will be playing on G4TV in January 2012 along with many other Marvel anime shows. We previously gave our thoughts on a number of these shows on the Powetcast back in May.

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Here’s a video showcasing a sticker book about the cartoon The Bots Master that went up on YouTube yesterday:

This sticker book dates back to 1994, which would have been when the show was still on the air. It’s in French and would have been sold in France back in the day. The book appears to be broken up into various episodes, with each episode having 3 pages of stickers dedicated to it. With a total of 40 episodes in the series, this book only covers a few.

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Hot Topic, who previously had a number of Sailor Moon shirts on sale, as reported by Powet, has lots of new products on sale including a full on Sailor Moon Halloween costume.

The costume itself looks kind of cheap, but that cheapness is mostly relegated to the locket, tiara and hair covers. If a cosplayer used a locket toy and spend some effort into making more high quality versions of those cheap parts, they could put together quite a costume!

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The Star Wars Blu-Ray release is finally out and with that we’ve got a collection of some shocking modified scenes not previously leaked. Here we have modified dialogue from Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi as well as some controversial changes to the Jedi ghost seen from the end of the trilogy.

A couple of weeks ago I asked our readers not to buy Star Wars on Blu-Ray and although I stand by that statement, I understand some of you are stubborn and would still like to buy them, so feel free to do so with these convenient links that we get a cut from:

Keep reading the see the two other movies that had clips used for this video:
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